Spatial and dietary sources of elevated mercury exposure in white-tailed eagle nestlings in an Arctic freshwater environment

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Søndergaard Jens, Laaksonen Toni, Ekblad Camilla, Stjernberg Torsten, Zubrod Jochen, Schulz Ralf, Eulaers Igor
• Other Authors: biologian laitoksen yhteiset, Department of Biology, ekologia ja evoluutiobiologia, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2606402, 2606400
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Porttipahta; Porttipahta Reservoir; Esox lucius; Haliaeetus albicilla; Northern Finland; White-tailed eagle; Lapland
• Online Access: https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/166819; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117952

Human-induced mercury (Hg) contamination is of global concern and its effects on wildlife remain of high concern, especially in environmental hotspots such as inland aquatic ecosystems. Mercury biomagnifies through the food web resulting in high exposure in apex predators, such as the white-tailed e...